Melissa Boyajian Personal Knowledge Base (PKB) Overview
Technology is ubiquitous in education and with this comes an increase in resources. It is beneficial if these resources are classified such that they can be efficiently managed and recalled. This can be done through the use of a Personal Knowledge Base (PKB), such as the one created in this course using a cloud-based program called “Evernote”.
I used Evernote for the first time in this course, Education in Contemporary Society, EDC 503. At first, attempting to download the program into my iPad during class was frustrating since my iPad required updates that I was not able to perform. After switching from my iPad to an updated MacBook I was able to download the software and begin building my Evernote PKB. The first application was to replace my paper, class notebook. One hundred percent of my class notes for EDC 503 went directly into Evernote. I then created a notebook for this course, labeled “EDC 503”. In this notebook, I was able to save PDF copies of class readings, such as “The Greatest Obstacle We Face” in the same note as my summary and related assignments. This was convenient when I wanted to recall the assignment and the article at later times since everything was together in one location.
Webclipper was especially useful in this course when completing my Context Report. As I previously mentioned, I recently switch to a MacBook and I am still unfamiliar with some of the commands and programs. Using webclipper was a fast and convenient way to copy and crop screenshots and save them as an image file for use in reports. I was never successful in downloading Skitch as it requires an update on both my iPad and MacBook and I do not have access to this on these work computers over the summer.
I also created an “Academic” stack of notebooks and a “Non-Academic” stack. The “Non-Academic” stack includes notebooks such as “Recipes” and “Pictures”. It was very convenient to save online recipes and associated websites to Evernote. I also saved some of the pictures of the dishes for inspiration using Webclipper. I found that when I saved an image to Evernote it always went into the generic “mkboyajian” notebook initially created by Evernote. I could easily move or copy the image into a different notebook by simply right-clicking or control-clicking on the image. On several occasions I have taken a picture on my iPad, e-mailed it to myself, opened it on my MacBook and then saved it into Evernote. I assume that if I could update my iPad’s ios system then I could sync my iPad to Evernote and save the picture directly, which would be incredibly convenient. You could save as many pictures as you want without taking up any memory on your device. My only concern is if Evernote ever ceases operations than all of my materials will be lost.
In my generic “mkboyajian” folder I created a note called “Tag Abbreviations”. This note was created to help maintain a consistent tagging scheme. Although this system is in its infancy the following tagging scheme has been devised:
NT-Class #-Topic-Subtopic General, Personal Notes AS-Class #-Topic-Subtopic Assignments TXT-Class #-Topic-Subtopic Texts RCP-Topic-Subtopic Recipes PIX-Topic-Subtopic Pictures
*Note: Class # is optional
Evernote is a relatively new program for me but as I discover innovative techniques for knowledge organization and recollection I will be sure to inform you. I am sure that I will use Evernote in the future in my academic and non-academic life. Dissertation research will definitely be aided with the use of Evernote to organize, mark-up and recall scholarly articles. Aside from Evernote, citation aides, such as Zotero and Endnote, will definitely be used for future work. I also enjoyed navigating and working with wikipages. This may be a tool I consider in my work at CCRI. It was simple to create personal pages for student work with appropriate links.
Personal Knowledge Base (PKB) Overview
Technology is ubiquitous in education and with this comes an increase in resources. It is beneficial if these resources are classified such that they can be efficiently managed and recalled. This can be done through the use of a Personal Knowledge Base (PKB), such as the one created in this course using a cloud-based program called “Evernote”.
I used Evernote for the first time in this course, Education in Contemporary Society, EDC 503. At first, attempting to download the program into my iPad during class was frustrating since my iPad required updates that I was not able to perform. After switching from my iPad to an updated MacBook I was able to download the software and begin building my Evernote PKB. The first application was to replace my paper, class notebook. One hundred percent of my class notes for EDC 503 went directly into Evernote. I then created a notebook for this course, labeled “EDC 503”. In this notebook, I was able to save PDF copies of class readings, such as “The Greatest Obstacle We Face” in the same note as my summary and related assignments. This was convenient when I wanted to recall the assignment and the article at later times since everything was together in one location.
Webclipper was especially useful in this course when completing my Context Report. As I previously mentioned, I recently switch to a MacBook and I am still unfamiliar with some of the commands and programs. Using webclipper was a fast and convenient way to copy and crop screenshots and save them as an image file for use in reports. I was never successful in downloading Skitch as it requires an update on both my iPad and MacBook and I do not have access to this on these work computers over the summer.
I also created an “Academic” stack of notebooks and a “Non-Academic” stack. The “Non-Academic” stack includes notebooks such as “Recipes” and “Pictures”. It was very convenient to save online recipes and associated websites to Evernote. I also saved some of the pictures of the dishes for inspiration using Webclipper. I found that when I saved an image to Evernote it always went into the generic “mkboyajian” notebook initially created by Evernote. I could easily move or copy the image into a different notebook by simply right-clicking or control-clicking on the image. On several occasions I have taken a picture on my iPad, e-mailed it to myself, opened it on my MacBook and then saved it into Evernote. I assume that if I could update my iPad’s ios system then I could sync my iPad to Evernote and save the picture directly, which would be incredibly convenient. You could save as many pictures as you want without taking up any memory on your device. My only concern is if Evernote ever ceases operations than all of my materials will be lost.
In my generic “mkboyajian” folder I created a note called “Tag Abbreviations”. This note was created to help maintain a consistent tagging scheme. Although this system is in its infancy the following tagging scheme has been devised:
NT-Class #-Topic-Subtopic General, Personal Notes
AS-Class #-Topic-Subtopic Assignments
TXT-Class #-Topic-Subtopic Texts
RCP-Topic-Subtopic Recipes
PIX-Topic-Subtopic Pictures
*Note: Class # is optional
Evernote is a relatively new program for me but as I discover innovative techniques for knowledge organization and recollection I will be sure to inform you. I am sure that I will use Evernote in the future in my academic and non-academic life. Dissertation research will definitely be aided with the use of Evernote to organize, mark-up and recall scholarly articles. Aside from Evernote, citation aides, such as Zotero and Endnote, will definitely be used for future work. I also enjoyed navigating and working with wikipages. This may be a tool I consider in my work at CCRI. It was simple to create personal pages for student work with appropriate links.